I have never been on a Blog before but find myself having the unfortunate opportunity to make a few points about a project that AGAPE has invested in. There seems to be some notion that the Carriage Homes project in Maine is somehow not performing. Today, January 23, 2009 there is $255,000 of modular structures being placed on foundations - all the while many Bloggers are slamming a project for some type of nonperformance. I am the contractor on this project, and the incessant nonsense of the commentary in these Blogs has caused financial damage to the project because of the untruthfulness of the commentary - The project is ahead of schedule, AGAPE is the lender/partner in the project and has never missed a payment for the construction. If anyone would take the time to understand the project they would see that it has a Proforma to earn investor/partners 35 - 40% ROI in under a year. That is why AGAPE can pay higher interest returns to their investors. People who invest in risk opportunities get paid higher returns than those who are risk averse. The only thing that these unfortunate, and untrue accusations about my project has done, is to tarnish a project, and its owners, in a small town in Maine. A town that needs jobs and investment. This project has provided for good paying jobs, and very nice subcontracts to local small business persons. Lost in this mess is that there are no bills owed on the project, no subcontractors are unpaid, no claims have ever been made against the project. For anyone to not understand that when this project is finished in Oct of 2009, it will have been completed on the backs of people who have tried hard to construct a project even in hard economic times. A project that has gone forward against all odds. Why not recognize that, and observe the fact that idle chatter is not just that; is dysfunctional and debilitating to a good project. By spreading false rumors, the project would arguably stand to fail as a result of bad press and false innuendos. By the way - that would cause a project to fail and even cause investor payments to default. So, by chattering instead of researching your subject - you all will help to fulfill your own failure prophecy. Some bloggers have even gone so far as to call and harass the local attorney for simply filing the papers for the project.
If you have a gripe - you can contact me through email (click on the email button below this post) or by phone at 561-339-1037 or 207-338-5285
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